mags, if you look at Martha's website, it attributes the cake to Gail Watson. It is the same cake, but it's attributed correctly here.Since I don't frequent Martha Stewart's website, I'm glad to be able to appreciate it here. :)

Today's Sweets are the perfect antidote to that (not-really-a-wreck) Gerber baby cake!!! I too SOOOO WANT those daisy cakes for my next birthday--and I'm shamelessly in my forties!--but hey, after all, my name is also Daisy! (Thanks for the pretty name, mom!)

I love how the yellow one does such a good job of reducing the number of daises as it goes down, giving it a cascade effect and really making the daises focal points instead of a dump'o'flowers. One of the rarest skills in any craft is the ability to know when to stop, and that decorator has that down. Bravo.

Ahem!! Gerbera and Margerites..not realy...proper Daisy is Bellis perrenis, the common european daisy a perenial grassland plant growing from a rhizome with a rossette of flat rounded leaves.The Gerbera family of flowering plants(there is no such thing as a gerber)are a member of the sunflower family.Marguerite's or ox-eye daisies are members of the chrysanthemum family.but the cakes are lovely, (apart from the topsy turvey thing thats just grotesque..)I sugest you go here for plant info

Can I just say that I look forward to the Sunday Sweets post EVERY week? These are just beautiful & make me forget the rainy craziness going on outside. Yay for spring, yay for Sunday Sweets & Cake Wrecks!

Working in a florist for many years, I have to say I LOVE these photos! Would I refer you to a site for you spelled a flower wrong? Probably not.... if you were a famous floral designer I would understand....

Keep us the great work! Have a happy Sunday and lets hope that the Epcot level doesnt go to orange! I think we are still recovering from the King Cake episode! :)

There are a thousand websites which refer to them as Gerber daisies and a thousand that call them Gerbera. From what I understand, the genus is Gerbera, the common name is Gerber and either is fine. I would like to point out two things though.

They were discovered by a guy named Gerber so calling them Gerber daisies seems to make sense.

The genus of a rose is Rosa but everybody calls it a rose.

Now, is this really important enough to get upset over? The world is full of conflict and tragedy and we're arguing over an a.

elsieI think the cake with the harlequin base has a floral top. I've got a florist friend who makes cakes with teensy flowers inserted in floral foam. and those flowers look like tiny green chrysanthemums.

John (husband of Jen, noble defender of CW), I could sooo kiss you (out of gratitude!) for putting nitpickers in their place. If this were a horticultural forum, then I could understand posting a correction for those who mistake certain sunflowers for daisies, but since this is a humor forum, let's make it more about humor, less about nitpicking. (And here in the States, I can't imagine wagging my finger at every florist I meet to tell him/her that their display of "Gerbera daisies" is technically not a daisy but a genus of the sunflower family. Whew!)

Cool! The bakery unknown green one in the net is me! May or may not be confusion with a recent name change; that cake was made when I went by She Takes The Cake at www.shetakesthecake.com but now it is Nonpareils at www.nonpareilscake.com. This was the original She Takes The Cake in New York. Glad you liked the cake and thrilled to have a second cake posted on your Sunday Sweets!

Hi! The four tier yellow cake with the gorgeous support column was from our local bakery Sugarland, here in Chapel Hill, NC! You can see the post on their facebook page here - https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=433657&id=50370380327#!/photo.php?fbid=10150162699690328&set=a.10150194726460328.433657.50370380327&theater Hope this helps put credit where credit is truly due! :)

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